On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 16:59, Ted Hardie wrote: > At 3:32 PM -0700 8/12/04, Douglas Otis wrote: > > > >There is a proposal that should interest you. It is called Bounce Tag > >Address Validation By Dave Crocker. > > > >http://www.brandenburg.com/specifications/draft-crocker-marid-batv-00-06dc.html > > > >This proposal is now in the IETF MASS WG. > > There was a BoF called MASS held at the recent IETF meetings in San Diego; > it has not yet been approved as a working group and no charter has been > reviewed by the IESG. While I believe the work on BATV is interesting, > I am not sure gating it on the approval of MASS is a good idea. One of > BATV's advantages is that there are ways to use it which are workable > within a single domain's administrative control. These do not eliminate > a domain's need to do some handling of bounces, but they can avoid those > bounces ending up in individuals' mailboxes. Reading the drafts, commenting > to the authors, and trying out those elements of the system need not > wait for action on the WG.
You are right, in that I anticipate the approval of the MASS charter. The BoF did introduce the BATV as a potential work element. MASS and BATV received a fair amount of attention, as it does address an annoying problem. From my perspective, as the BoF had to move to a large room to accommodate those in attendance, if this group does not obtain approval I would be surprised. I could be wrong. -Doug
